This past week we finished EVOC (Emergency Vehicle Operator's Course) at the Edmonton Garrison, I don't have any pictures yet except for a couple on my Facebook page.
The week prior we were on the Boat Course and Emergency Survival. For Emergency Survival we learned how to build fires & shelters as well as what we could eat in the boreal forest, than on the second day we built our own shelter and spent the night in the bush with nothing on but the clothes on our backs. If you go to my Facebook page you can see pictures of my super shelter.
Fifteen people in a 3 person boat....
We were in the Jasper Pool for half a day working with this little boat, PFDs, survival suits and swimming with our clothes on and 20 pound weight belts.
...Oops!
This was the boat trailering portion of the course...yes there is a trailer back there in the dust!
That's me in the passenger seat hanging on for dear life. We were following the instructor boat, if you look close you can see the top of the outboard at the bottom of the screen, that's how close we had to get.
My turn... it was hard to stay on that rooster-tail off the back of the lead boat.
In the back of this photo you can see one of the Trans Alta coal power generator plants which is right on the shore of Wabamun Lake.
Things got pretty choppy due to the high winds and the boat traffic, at times the waves got to be 4-6 feet high!
This is what happens when you lose control while trying to stay behind the lead boat. That used to be a $40,000 Crestliner boat, thank goodness for good insurance! No, I didn't do that!
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